{"id":1806,"date":"2021-12-08T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2021-12-08T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:12:15","slug":"special-olympics-leaders-use-microsoft-teams-to-build-community-and-shape-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/special-olympics-leaders-use-microsoft-teams-to-build-community-and-shape-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Olympics Leaders Use Microsoft Teams to Build Community and Shape the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Grace, a Special Olympics athlete and global youth leader from New Zealand, heard that a friend of hers had to miss a long-awaited competition due to transportation issues, her response was to help build an app that ensured other athletes wouldn&#8217;t run into similar problems. She teamed up with fellow global youth leader Jack, and the pair worked on a project designed to connect Special Olympics athletes with transportation. <\/p>\n<p>When COVID-19 threatened to stall the project&#8217;s momentum, the duo quickly turned to Microsoft Teams to collaborate and continue developing their app, making sure their inclusive initiative didn&#8217;t miss a beat. Teams enabled them to communicate across continents and stay on track with their plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stuf.in\/b87fed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global youth leaders from Special Olympics collaborated using Microsoft Teams to help develop a transportation app. With Teams, Grace and Jack were able to make progress on their important project despite the limitations posed by Covid-19 stay at home orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mowryinternational.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}